Media Player - Videos Look Vga!?! Help!

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David;
I just discovered something. If you go into WMP tools/options/performance/
and reduce the video acceleration to 1/2, it cleared up my video problems
immediately. In checking the XP system hardware acceleration setting in
control panel, it wasn't changed, nor are my Nvidia settings. It seems it
just reduces the acceleration in WMP.
Hope this helps you. It solved my problem completely.
DH
"David Johnson" <David.Johnson.1t9jpy@pcbanter.net> wrote in message
newsavid.Johnson.1t9jpy@pcbanter.net...
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> David Johnson Wrote:
>> I have had nothing but problems with my Winxp lately, now all my video
>> looks solarized and terrible. It look VGA style. I had recently also
>> downloaded the new Media Player 10 and this hasn't helped! Codex,
>> got'em all I believe and they don't help. This happens with avi, MPG,
>> wmv - but Quicktime still works fine and there is no problems with it..
>> Any ideas why?
>> I am using Nvidia's newest drivers as well - all has been updated.
>> And the thumbnail viewer in explorer looks fine with the video still,
>> just any program that plays AVI, MPG, WMV.
>> My NLE can view them fine as well. All my colours look ok, jpg and bmp
>> look good, just the video in media player or my winamp player look
>> terrible!
>> WinXP pro.
>>
>> Any help on this?
>
> When I turn off Hardware Acceleration it works again, but then I lose
> all of my Nvidia properties and I need those.
>
>
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> David Johnson